Considering that these days you get in trouble for just having the same name as a terrorist or even just looking middle-eastern, I'd rather be able to prove with something like this that I'm not a terrorist. But then again, I'm kinda biased since I'm middle-eastern:-)
Well I can understand if people with boring lives wouldn't care about this, but for people like me that have experienced a hell of a lot in life and been in a lot of crazy & random situations, but only have rare parts of it in photos & videos, I think having a video recording of most of my life would be incredible.
Well even if you recorded your entire life, its not like you have to watch the parts you didn't like, it would just give you the ability to do it, if you do find pleasure in it. Like having a digital camera or video camera with a never-ending battery & storage.
I went to this guy's lecture last week about MyLifeBits. When he says that he can store his whole life in a terabyte, he doesn't mean all of his senses for every single second and minute and hour of his life, he just means the important things he wants to collect. Such as taking hundreds or thousands of photos, audio or video recordings if he goes to the zoo, or taking nothing if he stays at home watching tv. Thats why he can fit his "life" into 1 terrabyte.
He is trying to store basically every piece of information he needs into his massive database, so that every time he visits a webpage, it will automatically be stored, every time he makes a phone call it will be stored, etc. And the difficulty is trying to have a good way of organising all of this, because you don't want to fast-forward through 10 years of audio & video to find something! He is currently labelling each thing manually, but ideally it would be done automatically by the system, since there is so much content to label for searching. He is even working on things like face recognition so that for example, if you see someone and forget their name, the MyLifeBits database will be able to tell you who they are, all the other times you met them, any emails or conversations between them, etc.
It's awesome if you ask me, but it also has big security issues, since most people would be less open & friendly if they knew they were being recorded by others.
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Considering that these days you get in trouble for just having the same name as a terrorist or even just looking middle-eastern, I'd rather be able to prove with something like this that I'm not a terrorist. But then again, I'm kinda biased since I'm middle-eastern :-)
Well I can understand if people with boring lives wouldn't care about this, but for people like me that have experienced a hell of a lot in life and been in a lot of crazy & random situations, but only have rare parts of it in photos & videos, I think having a video recording of most of my life would be incredible.
Well even if you recorded your entire life, its not like you have to watch the parts you didn't like, it would just give you the ability to do it, if you do find pleasure in it. Like having a digital camera or video camera with a never-ending battery & storage.
I went to this guy's lecture last week about MyLifeBits. When he says that he can store his whole life in a terabyte, he doesn't mean all of his senses for every single second and minute and hour of his life, he just means the important things he wants to collect. Such as taking hundreds or thousands of photos, audio or video recordings if he goes to the zoo, or taking nothing if he stays at home watching tv. Thats why he can fit his "life" into 1 terrabyte.
He is trying to store basically every piece of information he needs into his massive database, so that every time he visits a webpage, it will automatically be stored, every time he makes a phone call it will be stored, etc. And the difficulty is trying to have a good way of organising all of this, because you don't want to fast-forward through 10 years of audio & video to find something! He is currently labelling each thing manually, but ideally it would be done automatically by the system, since there is so much content to label for searching. He is even working on things like face recognition so that for example, if you see someone and forget their name, the MyLifeBits database will be able to tell you who they are, all the other times you met them, any emails or conversations between them, etc.
It's awesome if you ask me, but it also has big security issues, since most people would be less open & friendly if they knew they were being recorded by others.